Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.
Quotes to Explore
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.
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I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.
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When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.
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Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.
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About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
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My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.
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I always seem to be reading several books at once.
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Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.
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It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.
